Dear Coaches and Competitors,

The Rigby High School speech and debate team cordially invites you to attend the Trojan War Speech and Debate Class on January 29th and 30th. The tournament will be held virtually on NSDA Campus and Tabroom.com. This tournament is an NIETOC bid qualifier in Duo, Humor, Dramatic, Extemp, POI, Informative, and Oratory.

 Events & Divisions

We will be offering open and novice divisions of  LD and Public Forum, and Policy Debate. We will also be offering an open division of World Schools debate and Congressional debate. Novice division are limited to competitors who are in their first academic year of competition. We are also offering the following speech events: Impromptu, Informative, Original Oratory, Sales Speaking, After Dinner Speaking, Duo Interp, Humorous interp, Dramatic Interp, Extemporaneous, Radio, Communication Analysis, Panel Discussion, Program Oral Interpretation, and Duo Retold. Any event with less than 15 entries is subject to being dropped at the hosts discretion. Students will be able to double enter in two (2) speech events excluding those who double enter in two draw events, or panel and a draw event. The guidelines set out by the Idaho H.S. Activities Association, including the Idaho Debate Code, will be utilized to establish a standard of competition and evaluation. 

Congress Docket

Please email all congress legislation submissions to bsondrup@gmail.com by January 18th at 8 PM. The docket will be released on January 19th at Noon. 

Judge Requirements

Each school must provide one (1) judge for every two (2) policy teams or portion thereof, one (1) judge for every four (4) Lincoln-Douglas, and Public Forum teams or portion thereof and one (1) judge for every five (5) speech entries or portion thereof, and one judge for every Eight (8) congress entries or portion thereof.    

No Show Policy

Do not enter judges unless you con confirm they will be at the tournament. No Show Judges will be fined $25 per round. Judge fees will be enforced.

Entering the tournament signifies agreement and understanding of these policies.